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Blood Rush

The Dark History of a Vital Fluid

By: Jan Verplaetse

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Blood Rush

The Dark History of a Vital Fluid

By: Jan Verplaetse

As a young man, Jan Verplaetse saw a hare suspended from a meat hook, skinned and gutted. What struck him so forcefully at the time was not the animal itself, but the blood gently dripping from its mouth. His reaction prompted the start of a quest he undertakes in this book: to investigate our fascination with blood, the most vital of fluids. Blood Rush shows how, throughout history, blood has had the capacity to intoxicate us, to the point that we lose ourselves, whether in violence, through hunting, fighting, or killing, or in the vicarious thrill of watching sporting events, horror films, or video games. Are these feelings physical, or in our imagination? Where does the magic of blood come from? In his deeply researched and provocative narrative, Verplaetse moves from antiquity to the present, from magic to experimental psychology, from philosophy to religion and scientific discoveries, to demonstrate why blood at once attracts and repels us.

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Reaktion Books

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1789142431

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9781789142433

Localizing the Moral Sense

Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

By: Jan Verplaetse

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Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

By: Jan Verplaetse

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the “moral brain” became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm. How revolutionary this current research might be, the quest for a localisable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during the 19th and 20th century. From the phrenology era to the encephalitis pandemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a moral sense in the human cortex. Encouraged by medical discoveries and concerned by terrifying phenomena like crime or “moral insanity” (psychopathy) even renowned and outstanding neurologists, including Moritz Benedikt, Paul Flechsig, Arthur Van Gehuchten, Oskar Vogt or Constantin von Monakow, had the nerve to make their speculations public. This book presents the first overview of believers and disbelievers in a cerebral seat of human morality, their positions and arguments and offers an explanation for these historical attempts to localise our moral sense, in spite of the massive disapproving commentary launched by colleagues.

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303

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402063229

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9781402063220

Forensic Science

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: Evgeny Katz,Jan Halámek

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Forensic Science

A Multidisciplinary Approach

By: Evgeny Katz,Jan Halámek

Concentrating on the natural science aspects of forensics, top international authors from renowned universities, institutes, and laboratories impart the latest information from the field. In doing so they provide the background needed to understand the state of the art in forensic science with a focus on biological, chemical, biochemical, and physical methods. The broad subject coverage includes spectroscopic analysis techniques in various wavelength regimes, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, electrochemical detection approaches, and imaging techniques, as well as advanced biochemical, DNA-based identification methods. The result is a unique collection of hard-to-get data that is otherwise only found scattered throughout the literature.

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446

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John Wiley & Sons

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3527693521

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9783527693528

International Law in Historical Perspective

Index

By: J. H. Jan Hendrik Willem Verzijl

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International Law in Historical Perspective

Index

By: J. H. Jan Hendrik Willem Verzijl

This volume completes the monumental, eleven-volume series, "International Law in Historical Perspective," which was published over a period of 24 years by Professor J.H.W. Verzijl (and continued after his death in 1987 by W.P. Heere and J.P.S. Offerhaus). This index volume provides insight into the series both for the uninitiated and initiated, enabling the user to access all 11 volumes (spanning a total of 6500 printed pages) quickly and easily. It contains a subject index, an index of personal names, of geographical names, of ships' names, a list of treaties, a list of international judgements and a list of international arbitrations. A list of Professor Verzijl's commentaries on the more recent jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice completes the volume.

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408

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9041105484

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9789041105486

Localizing the Moral Sense

Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

By: Jan Verplaetse

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Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

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Localizing the Moral Sense

Neuroscience and the Search for the Cerebral Seat of Morality, 1800-1930

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Book's by Jan Verplaetse

Blood Rush

Blood Rush

Localizing the Moral Sense

Localizing the Moral Sense

Forensic Science

Forensic Science

International Law in Historical Perspective

International Law in Historical Perspective

Localizing the Moral Sense

Localizing the Moral Sense

Localizing the Moral Sense

Localizing the Moral Sense

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